Quotes About Anticipation

You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them wrong all again...That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that- well, lucky you.

Ma appena desideri appassionatamente una cosa sulla quale non puoi esercitare alcun controllo, sei alla vigilia di una grossa delusione: ti stai preparando a farti mettere in ginocchio.

Our conduct today is affected by what we know of tomorrow.

ready for the Rapture, there's no such thing as getting ready—there's only living ready. When you hear Jesus' shout, the archangel's voice, and God's trumpet (1 Thessalonians 4:16), you'll know that you're an eyeblink away from seeing your Savior's face. Make sure you're all about His business until He comes.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

We do not get what we hope for, we get what you expect.

Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.

this might be the happy ending without the ending

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

All I get is tomorrow.

It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

I would always wait to take you home.

A plan is a thing that goes unsaid, but puts the hope in your voice nonetheless.

I am worried we've run out of words, and am hoping she is just saving them for later.

instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

willyoupleasebequiet: are you ready? bluejeanbaby: for what? willyoupleasebequiet: the future willyoupleasebequiet: because i think it just started

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard.

There's still a part of her that's waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

I am trying not to think of what will happen next. I am trying not to think of endings.

There are some days you know ahead of time are going to be important, but most of the important ones end up catching you by surprise. the best thing to do is to treat all your days well. Then see what happens.

LYNDA (TO TINY): Look forward to the moment when it falls apart. Look forward to the moment when you must rearrange your heart. It might feel like the end of the world- but it's the beginning of your art.